Mackay: the conflict in Ukraine has exposed a serious crisis in the OSCE

The Ukrainian conflict has demonstrated that the OSCE is a serious crisis, said foreign Minister of Belarus Vladimir Makei met with the OSCE Chairman Ivica Dacic on Tuesday in Minsk.

Tuesday in the capital of Belarus will host the next round of negotiations of the contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine and its subgroups. It is expected that the meeting will be attended by the head of the OSCE.

"Unfortunately, the Ukrainian conflict has demonstrated that the organization of the OSCE is in a serious crisis," said Mackay.

"The problem is the lack of trust between the countries-participants," he added.

The Belarusian Minister said that the Republic sees the need for " a serious discussion regarding the coming of the organization, its reformatting.

"Unfortunately, today the basic principle of the organization is the presentation of claims on the principle of" I'm right and you're wrong ". Our goal is to move away from this approach and discover vzaimouvjazyvalsja basis, " he said.

because of this, Makey said that Belarus fully supports the priorities of the OSCE chairmanship in Serbia, " which aims to develop a common space, stability and security ".